Celeste
Let’s get one thing clear immediately: Celeste is not a walk in the park. If anything, it’s quite the contrary. A daunting scramble through retro-styled levels in an attempt to reach the top of the mountain all so you can prove some bitter old woman that protagonist Madeline met at the bottom wrong. Sensible stuff!
As you may have guessed then, the old woman may have been speaking some truth. Climbing the mountain gets progressively difficult in Celeste, with each new level introducing more wrinkles to the simple platforming action that really puts your skills to the test. And then there are elusive golden strawberries for those of you out there who want to risk launching your Switch out the window.
Celeste’s beauty comes in the sense that with every time the red-headed protagonist slips off the bottom of your screen, you’ll learn a new lesson in how to tackle the obstacles that lay in wait. Death isn’t a thing to be ashamed of in Celeste, but something to learn from… and something you’ll do a heck of a lot, too.
